Nov 5
Back around the turn of the millennium, I was doing a lot of writing on freedom of information laws and other topics relating to governmental openness. 
About 2001, I learned that NATO was overhauling its fifty-year-old policy on the handling of information shared among NATO member countries. The work was being handled by a body called the Ad Hoc Working Group for the Fundamental Review of NATO Security Policy (AHWG-FRNSP). Read more
I presented my Large Forces monograph at the Northeast Conference on Public Administration on November 2. The Powerpoint version of the presentation is here. I’ll be revising the manuscript before I discuss it again at the Southern Political Science Association’s meeting in New Orleans in January. Here are key items to be addressed in the revision, following the very helpful conversation at NECoPA: Read more
The End of Protest is now available on Kindle. You can also watch the short video about the ebook here.
Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo talked about his work to my Law and Public Policy class this morning. It was a great conversation.
The first draft of my working paper Large Forces: What’s Missing in Public Administration is now completed and available here. I’ll be presenting this work at the New England Conference on Public Administration at the University of Delaware on November 2.
In the current issue of Economic History Review, Adam Costanzo of Wiley College reviews America’s First Great Depression: “an admirable argument for reassessing the importance of the panic of 1837 and its subsequent economic crisis.” Read the review.
A short video about The End of Protest is now available on YouTube.
BiblioVault has just posted the details on my forthcoming ebook from Cornell University Press, The End of Protest: How Free Market Capitalism Learned to Control Dissent.
Foreign Affairs has just published my article, Who should run the Fed? “The fight over who will succeed Ben Bernanke as chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve rolls on, getting bigger and more tangled as it goes. It is easy to get caught up in the debate about the merits of different candidates, but doing so misses a larger point. The real story here is the intensity of the fight itself, which is evidence of a shift of power toward central bankers that began under U.S. President Ronald Reagan and has been aggravated since the financial crisis of 2008.”
In the current issue of American Review of Public Administration, Curtis Ventriss of the University of Vermont discusses America’s First Great Depression: “What is noteworthy about Roberts’s meticulous historical analysis is not so much the validity of his conclusions, but instead his attention to the interplay of the global economy and the changing economic dynamics occurring domestically and the political detritus of such developments on the body politic. This is a prescient reminder of why the inclusion of a historical dimension is critical to any legitimate inquiry (coupled with appropriate empirical data) about the important nexus between public affairs and economic issues.” Read the article.
Alasdair S. Roberts 
